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Mac Dre Biography
Mac Dre is one of the most popular and richest Rapper who was born on July 5, 1970 in Oakland, California, United States. He was born Andre Louis Hicks and was the founder of Thizz Entertainment. After a dispute with a Kansas City club promoter, he was attacked and killed.
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Andre Louis Hicks (July 5, 1970 – November 1, 2004), better known by his stage name Mac Dre, was an American rapper, hip hop pioneer, and record producer based in Vallejo, California. He was instrumental in the emergence of hyphy, a cultural movement in the Bay Area hip hop scene that emerged in the early 2000s. Hicks is considered one of the movement’s key pioneers that fueled its popularity into mainstream, releasing songs with fast-paced rhymes and basslines that inspired a new style of dance. As the founder of the independent record label Thizz Entertainment, Hicks recorded dozens of albums and gave aspiring rappers an outlet to release albums locally.
In the early 1990s, the city of Vallejo experienced a surge in bank robberies. Vallejo police began to focus on the Crest Neighborhood as the source with new found intensity. Hicks was vocal about the actions he saw being taken by the police and incorporated their aggressive surveillance of residents into his music. As gangster rap music consistently grew in popularity, law enforcement officials began to examine the lyrics of local rappers to utilize as evidence in criminal matters.
He had a daughter named Drane.
Name | Mac Dre |
First Name | Mac |
Last Name | Dre |
Occupation | Rapper |
Birthday | July 5 |
Birth Year | 1970 |
Place of Birth | Oakland |
Home Town | California |
Birth Country | United States |
Birth Sign | Cancer |
Full/Birth Name | |
Parents | Wanda Salvatto, Allen Hicks |
Siblings | Not Available |
Spouse | Not Known |
Children(s) | Andrea Hicks |
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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After Hicks and other Thizz Entertainment members had performed a show in Kansas City, Missouri on October 31, 2004, an unidentified gunman shot at the group’s van as it traveled on U.S. Route 71 in the early morning hours of November 1. The van’s driver crashed and called 9-1-1, but Hicks was pronounced dead at the scene from a bullet wound to the neck.
Mac Dre Net Worth
Mac Dre is one of the richest Rapper from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mac Dre's net worth $1.5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
His 1989 debut album, Young Black Brotha, was his first independently recorded album.
From 1996 to 1998, he was controversially held in prison for being a part of an attempted bank robbery.
Andre Louis Hicks was born in Oakland, California on July 5, 1970 and moved to Vallejo area. He would frequent specifically, Country Club Crest neighborhood, known locally as The Crest. In 1989, the outgoing Hicks made waves with a cassette tape featuring the single, “Too Hard for the F—in’ Radio” while still a student at Vallejo’s Hogan High School. NPR reflected on his sound in 2013 article as being “fast and confident” further writing that “he built upon the bouncy bass that had its roots in the funk era.” When asked about his childhood, Hicks stated that “Situations came out for the better most of them, I went through the little trials and the shit that I went through.” Hicks first adopted the stage name MC Dre in 1984, but altered it to Mac Dre the following year because he considered the name sounded “too East Coast-ish”. Hicks recorded his first three EPs as Mac Dre between 1988 and 1992.
Net Worth | $1.5 Million |
Salary | Under Review |
Source of Income | Rapper |
Cars | Not Available |
House | Living in own house. |
Hicks continued to release multiple albums independently until his untimely death in 2004 that were wildly popular. In 1998, Hicks relocated to Sacramento to distance himself from the stigma that developed in the eyes of Vallejo law enforcement and founded the a new label, Thizz Entertainment label (now managed by his mother). In 2000, Hicks’s change in sound became influential in the Hyphy Movement.
In 2004, Hicks was killed by an unknown assailant after a performance in Kansas City, Missouri, a case that remains unsolved.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
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Height | Unknown |
Weight | Not Known |
Body Measurements | Under Review |
Eye Color | Not Available |
Hair Color | Not Available |
Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
On March 26, 1992, at age 21, Hicks was invited by some of his friends to a road trip roughly 3 hours away to Fresno. Hicks had performed in the city two weeks prior and decided to go on the trip so that he could re-visit with a girl. While driving back to Vallejo the car was surrounded by the FBI along with Fresno and Vallejo police. The police stated that while Hicks was at a motel, his friends were allegedly casing a bank but had changed their mind when they saw a local Fresno TV News van in the bank’s parking lot. When questioned by the police, Hicks stated that he did not leave the hotel therefore did not know anything. The police subsequently charged him with conspiracy to commit robbery, although no bank robbery was conducted and Hicks was neither with his friends nor near the location of the purported bank. He was sentenced to five years in federal prison after he refused a deal which included implicating his friends in a robbery that did not occur. The trial was later listed among Complex Magazine’s 30 Biggest Criminal Trials in Rap History. At the time of his conviction, Hicks owned the record label Romp Productions. Hicks was released a year early from prison for good behavior on August 2, 1996, after serving four years. It was during his time in prison, that Hicks developed a “better appreciation for freedom, life, fun.”
Who is Mac Dre Dating?
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Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Mac Dre. You may help us to build the dating records for Mac Dre!After his release, Hicks wanted to start doing music that was easy to dance to. He and long time friend and fellow rapper, Troy Reddick a/k/a Da’unda’Dogg decided to try to do something different. The duo recorded several songs to pitch for the first time, to major record labels. One song was sent to various West-Coast-based representatives of the well-known Oakland rapper Too Short for an upcoming compilation, Nationwide: Independence Day, but was not selected and it is unknown if the song ever made it to Too Short. In 2019, Grammy winning Atlanta rapper and multi-platinum producer, Lil Jon, with the blessing of Hicks’s mother (Hicks was murdered in 2004), would incorporate the same vocals in the single “Ain’t No Tellin” and release thru Geffen Records. Ironically, Lil Jon’s 1998 debut to the Bay Area was through a song on the same Too Short compilation. Reddick, in a statement to Complex Magazine stated “Of all the vocals Jon got, he picked some from the record Dre wrote to be released by a major label, and 23 years later Lil Jon has completed his goal!”
Facts & Trivia
Mac Ranked on the list of most popular Rapper. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Mac Dre celebrates birthday on July 5 of every year.
Why was Mac Dre in jail?
The police subsequently charged him with conspiracy to commit robbery, although no bank robbery was conducted and Hicks was neither with his friends nor near the location of the purported bank. He was sentenced to five years in federal prison after he refused a plea deal for the conspiracy charge.
Who was with Mac Dre when he was shot?
However, that didn’t stop Fat Tone from facing deadly consequences over the unfounded rumors and on May 23, 2005, seven months after Mac Dre’s killing, Fat Tone and his friend, Jermaine Aikens, were murdered in Las Vegas in what is widely believed to have been retaliation for Mac Dre’s death.
Is Mac Dre really dead?
November 1, 2004
Does Mac Dre have a daughter?
Andrea Hicks
How many times did Dr Dre get shot?
Others included Dre being shot four times in the leg, his house catching on fire during a wild party, and a flashback of his younger brother in the fight that ended his life. At a public Q&A, the film’s director F.
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